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2025 Spring: Geoscience, Advocating for Those Impacted by Climate Change : Search Strategy

Keyword searching

Keywords:

Example: Thinking of Synonyms for Farm Workers: 

  • "farm workers"

  • "Agricultural workers"

  • "Farm laborers"

  • "Agricultural laborers"

  • "Farm employees"

Example:  Thinking of Synonyms for Climate Change

  • "Global climate change"

  • "Climate variability"

  • "Climatic shifts"

Search Builder

Search Strategy Builder

This tool is designed to teach you how to create a search string. While it is not a database and is not designed to input a search, you should be able to cut and paste the results into the standard database search boxes.

  Concept 1 AND Concept 2 AND Concept 3
Name your core concepts here    
Search terms Search terms Search terms

List alternate terms for each concept.

These can be synonyms, or they can be specific examples of the concept.

You can use single words, or phrases with quotation marks.

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Now copy and paste the above Search Strategy into a database search box.

The Search Strategy Builder was developed by the University of Arizona Libraries(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).